Quality and efficiency of fuselage and wings assembly can be improved significantly by using of automatic drilling and riveting technology. For decades now

this technique has been widely applied in aerospace manufacturing in foreign

while it’s just at beginning at home and the poor level for long time. So advanced foreign technologies are invested in this paper

taking GEMCOR

Electroimpact (EI)

BROETJE Automation as examples

their features and the latest development are introduced respectively. Meanwhile

the development of automatic drilling and riveting at home is also illustrated briefly

as well as the problems facing in this area. Moreover

the key technologies

including high precision positioning

hole inspection on-line

automatic fastener feeding

off-line programming and simulation are analyzed in detail

which provide reference for the development of automatic drilling and riveting technology at home.